Professor Charles Xavier was dead but he still has a major role in the X-Men run by Brian Michael Bendis.
The child of Xavier and Mystique from the future came back in time with a vengeance in Battle of the Atom, then The Last Will and Testament of Charles Xavier revealed a bombshell, the Professor had married Mystique?
Rookie mutant Eva Bell changed history and saved lives including Cyclops and Emma Frost. When Eva went back in time to convince Xavier to prevent the birth of Matthew Malloy, he immediately read her mind but did he erase his future memories when she left?
Did this past encounter between Eva and Charles erase his marriage to Raven and their son?
That was a clever X-Fan’s burning question and ours so we wanted to share his reply:
“Well yeah, it is, and I wanted to kinda leave it there for discussion, which is a discussion that I enjoyed. Let’s say — and I’m not going to answer the question — there is a version of this that you can think about where you say to yourself, “Did Xavier really clear his mind of all the things that he was shown? Because something changed that created him not marrying Mystique. And if that, why that? Or did it just happen of its own like in “Sliding Doors,” some little minutiae thing — a butterfly effect — of what Eva did just created the fact that their marriage didn’t happen.” I know some people were requesting that the book turn into Charles Xavier and Raven sitcom marriage book, “That’s So Raven” or something. I do like when you put stuff out there and let people argue about it, so that’s my answer. It did make certain things go away that we clearly show we happening, but the question is did he do it on purpose or did it just happen?,” Bendis said on CBR’s X-Position.
Did Raven trick Charles into marriage? Is their son and the future X-Men from Battle of the Atom still around?
The final chapter of the Bendis X era arrives in Uncanny X-Men #600 this October.
By Editor